EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORT OF SKIN LESIONS IN CHILDREN ADMITTED TO ICU SURGERY - TRAUMA

Abstract

Background: patients who admitted in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are susceptible to many complications. We aimed to investigate skin disorders prevalence's in critically ill surgical–trauma pediatrics during their ICU stay.
Methods: We recorded age, sex, Type of skin lesions, duration of ICU stay, and Pediatric index of mortality3.
We used Chi-square test ANOVA test to data analysis. Test results were evaluated at 95% confidence interval and significance level of P <0.05..
Results: Our study included 632 patients (mean age of 6.2 ±4 years). 82 of the 632 (22.6%) patients were developed the skin lesions. The most common skin lesion were: Hemorrhagic lesions were (26.8%) drug eruptions (23.1%), infectious lesions (20.7%) Xeroderma, (14.6%), Pressure ulcers (9.7%), Palmoplantar keratoderma (4.8%).
The incidence of skin lesions in pediatric ICU patients was not significantly related to their age and sex (P-Value>0.05), the incidence of skin lesions was significantly associated with the length of ICU stay and the severity of the patient's disease. (P-Value>0.05).
Conclusion: many factors such as illness severity, duration of ICU stay, increase dermatological disorders among surgical-trauma pediatrics ICU patients.